After actor Malaika Arora did to show up as a witness in the case concerning Saif Ali Khan’s alleged 2012 attack on an NRI businessman at a five-star hotel in Mumbai, a Mumbai court reissued a bailable warrant against her. When the purported event occurred on February 22, 2012, Arora was a member of the group that had joined Khan for dinner at the hotel.
The evidence of the case’s witnesses is presently being recorded by Chief Judicial Magistrate K S Zanwar of the Esplanade court. On February 15, the court initially issued a bailable warrant against Arora. Since she failed to appear in court, it was reissued on Monday. The next hearing on the case is scheduled for April 29.
After Iqbal Mir Sharma, a businessman, filed a complaint, Saif Ali Khan and two other suspects were taken into custody. Later, the three were set free on bond. When the fight started, the actor was at the hotel with his wife Kareena Kapoor, her sister Karisma Kapoor, Malaika Arora, Amrita Arora, and a few male friends.
Police claim that Saif threatened the actor and his pals after Sharma objected to their boisterous conversation, then hit Sharma in the nose, breaking it. Additionally, Saif and his companions were accused by the NRI businessman of assaulting his father-in-law, Raman Patel. Saif, meanwhile, has asserted that the disturbance was caused by Sharma’s offensive remarks and foul language directed at the women who were with him.
Saif and his two friends – Shakeel Ladak and Bilal Amrohi – have been charge-sheeted under section 325 (assault) of the Indian Penal Code.
